on 3/6/99 11:13 PM, Dan McMahill was rumored to have said...

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>On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Greg Evans wrote:
>> on 3/6/99 10:16 PM, Dan McMahill was rumored to have said...
>> >gnuplot is in the packages collection.
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>> It is? I will go searching for it via FTP however here is the info on the 
>> gnuplot web browsable packages page:
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>> This package requires the following package(s) to run: (none) . 
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>>        (no precompiled binaries available)
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>> so going from this I went to 
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>> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.3.3/mac68k/graphics and 
>> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.3.3/All
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>> no mention of gnuplot there...next try was:
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>> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.3.2/mac68k/graphics/
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>not all of the packages in the collection have been built for 1.3.3 or
>earlier.  In fact, I'm not sure what the procedure is for when those get
>built.  But for you all this means is you have to build it your self, but
>its easy with the packages collection.
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>Read http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html.
>Especially, you will need to follow the directions in the
>"Setting Up the NetBSD Packages Collection" section.
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>Everything you need to know is (hopefully) there.  
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>-Dan

Thanks for the suggestion guys....I went searching while I awaited a 
response and found the source for it at 

ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot and grabbed it there....hopefully iy will 
work, otherwise I will try the pkgsrc way.

Regards,

Greg